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aerial image of Intuit Dome
California Dreamin’

Facades+ Los Angeles returns on November 7 and 8 with two days of talks and workshops

An offset ADU in Los Angeles by Byben
The Fun in Functional

Byben’s Offset ADU doubles the living space for a Los Angeles couple while making room for humor

A forest-like bar blends luxury and Oregon landscapes by ROAM
Natural Luxury

ROAM Interior Design references Oregon’s forests for the bar at Ritz-Carlton Hotel & Residences in Portland

LACMA progress
Are We There Yet?

Peter Zumthor–designed David Geffen Galleries at LACMA to open in April 2026

a Victorian-era gate surrounds trees outside brick building
More Alive

Min Design cements a commitment to public space with The Garden Party in San Francisco

part of old bridge positioned in front of water
Local Lore

Surfacedesign repurposes building materials and coastal rocks for Bayfront Park in San Francisco

California greenery paves the way to a garage-turned-music studio
Grids Galore

Loaf converts a garage into a music studio and updates two bathrooms with equal parts play and practicality

houses in Governors Point will be faced with stones
Governors Point

A new planned community by Omer Arbel Office on a protected Washington peninsula rises from the Salish Sea like a rock outcropping

A living room with a window and minimal furnishing by Min Design
Very Mindful

Min Design sculpts planes and openings strategically for a contemplative home, Capturing Light

View of the renovated stage at the Jacobs Music Center by HGA
Sounds from the Past

HGA restores San Diego Symphony’s Jacobs Music Center

At Blue Sky Center, peepSHOW is a mirror-clad installation
A Mirrored Mirage

peepSHOW an installation by David Baker Architects’s DBA_Lab, shimmers and confounds

people sitting outside building part of Lake Union Piers by Miller Hull
Baby Steps

Miller Hull led the renovation of Seattle’s Lake Union Piers, making it the firm’s first EMission Zero project

Close up of the facade showing the stepped texture.
A Step Forward

Flad Architects references geological formations for new life science research building in San Diego

exterior of Field Arts & Events Hall in Port Angeles by LMN Architects
Forest for the Trees

LMN Architects completes the Field Arts & Events Hall in northern Washington, writing the next chapter in Port Angeles’s timber story

The Grand Los Angeles by Frank Gehry, where DATALAND will be built
The Intersection of Art and Technology

Refik Anadol Studio reveals DATALAND, the “world’s first Museum of AI Arts” coming to Los Angeles

843 North Spring Street in Los Angeles by LEVER Architecture
Material Trio

LEVER Architecture applies a hybrid structural system to a Los Angeles office building

A living room with a white fireplace and artwork on either side at Pennyroyal
New Slopes

Obata Noblin Office introduces a wood-clad, modern interior to a 1970s ski house, Pennyroyal

Taliesin West
Looking Forward

An open letter to the board of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation

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